1 Standards for distributed platforms. - 2 Distributed object oriented approaches. - 3 The impact of mobility on distributed systems platforms. - 4 Extensions to ANSAware for advanced mobile applications. - 5 System integration for mobile computing and service mobility. - 6 A comparative analysis of virtual versus physical process-migration strategies for distributed modeling and simulation of mobile computing networks. - 7 Use of DSOM before/after metaclass for enabling object access control. - 8 A framework for inter-ORB request level bridge construction. - 9 Migration of legacy applications to a CORBA platform: a case study. - 10 Distributed computing environment (DCE) porting tool. - 11 Migrating from ISODE/ROSE to DCE/RPC: a common interface and a compiler. - 12 Achieving interoperability between CORBA and DCE applications using bridges. - 13 Efficient and fault-tolerant distributed host monitoring using system-level diagnosis. - 14 Object instrumentation for distributed applications management. - 15 A modeling framework for integrated distributed systems fault management. - 16 Design of multimedia global PACS CORBA environment. - 17 An object group model and its implementation to support cooperative applications on CORBA. - 18 Trader supported distributed office applications. - 19 SMT: a system monitoring tool for DCE. - 20 Performance evaluation of a distributed application performance monitor. - 21 A high-level process checkpointing and migration scheme for heterogenous distributed systems. - 22 Agents services and electronic markets: how do they integrate?. - 23 New concepts for qualitative trader cooperation. - 24 Overview of the DRYAD trading system implementation. - 25 Enabling interworking between heterogenous distributed platforms. - 26 Inter-operability and distributed application platform design. - 27 Security architecture based on secret key and privilege attribute certificates. - 28 A model for evolution of services in distributed systems. - 29 Using OMG IDL to write OODCE applications. - 30 Transparently programming heterogenous distributed systems. - 31 Evaluating delayed write in a multilevel caching file system. - 32 Reducing the cost of remote procedure call. - 33 Service management using up-to-date quality properties. - 34 QoS support for distributed multimedia communications. - 35 A framework for QoS updates in a networking environment. - 36 Equus: a QoS manager for distributed applications. - Index of contributors. - Keyword index. Language: English